Ice-cream container



R. T. HUNT. ICE CREAM CONTAINER. APPLICATIoN FILED-Ausfz. 1919.

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UNITED sTATEs PATENT oFFlcE.

ROBERT T. HUNT, OF COSHOCTON, OHIO, ASSIGNOR TO THE HUNT-CRAWFORD CO.,OF

l COSHOCTON, OHIO, A CORPORATION OF OHIO.

ICE-CREAM CONTAINER.

' Specification of Letters Patent.

l Application led August 2, 1919. Serial No. 314,974.

To all/whom t may concern. A

Be it known that I, ROBERT T. HUNT, a citizen of the United States, andresident of Coshocton, in the county of Coshocton-and Y State of Ohio,have invented a new and usearound the can and well over the top to preasa consequence of the disks of the container. v

vent the ice-cream from melting in transit and until ready to be served.The cost of the tin receptacle, thev wooden bucket and the packing ofthe. ice around the same 1s a matter of great expense, and forms a heavycumbersome article to be dellvered, while the bulk takes up a great dealof room in the delivery wagon. Furthermore, after the delivery of theice-cream, the buckets and cans have to be called for to be returned tothe factory, and in the meantime -very often the lid of the can hasbecome misplaced or lost, and through pressure of business very oftenthereturnA of the bucket andvcan is delayed so that very often both aremissing when they are called fr, and

eat loss and inconvenience is occasioned y this system. y

rIhe object of my invention is to provide va compact lightl package inwhich the icecream is delivered and in-'which it can be kept in a frozenstate for hours without the employment of any ice. The container beingformed of cardboard when once used may be destroyed or thrown away,thereby dispensing with all the expense and inconvenience of the returnof the container to the factory.

To these ends my invention `comprises the. novel features hereinafterset forth and claimed.

' In the accompanying drawing Figure 1 is a longitudinal sectional viewof my improved container ready for shipment; Fig. 2 is a cross sectionof same on the line 2-'2 Fig. l; Fig. is a perspective view of one Inthe drawing the numeral 2 designates the outer container which is formedof pasteboard or other material of a like character which will have thenecessary strength and rigidity, lbut which can `be produced at lowcost. In the bottom of the outer container 2 is located a disk 3 formedof corrugated paper board composed of a layer of corrugated board andthen a plain layer. In this manner the air spaces between the layers ofthe disk form air cells which provide a dead-air space at the bottom` ofthe outer container 2.

To provide a like dead-air space around the inner walls of the container2 and the lnner container` 4,`I provide a roll of corrugated paper 5 inthe form of a shell made up Patented May 3, 1921.l

of several spirallywound convolutions and .into which the innercontainen/i is inserted. The air cells of the surrounding corrugatedcylinder provide for the insulation of the walls of the inner container4.

The inner container 4 is provided with the lid 6.

Resting on the lid 6of the inner container is the, ,disk 7 of the sameconstruction as the disk 3 which provides for the insulation of the topof the container.

l dThe outer container is provided with the When the inner container 4is filled with ice-cream the cover 6 is applied and the container isinserted into the outer container with its bottom resting upon the disk3 and its outer walls surrounded by the corrugated roll 5. The top disk7 is then applied and the cover 8 adjusted on theouter container,whereupon the container is ready for transportation.

Practical experience has proven that icecream transported in my improvedcontainer will keep for many hours in a hard frozen thermore, from asanitary standpoint, there is a great advantage in the use of a singleservice package.

After the ice-cream has been delivered and removed from the containerthe container may be destroyed or thrown away, thereby dispensing withall the expense and trouble of collectm the buckets and cans heretoforeemploye for this purpose, and returning them to the factory. if

What I claim is:-

An ice-cream container comprising a cylindrical outer container formedof pasteboard or like material, a corrugated paper board disk at thebottom of said outer con- 1I tainer, a cylindrical shell formed of aplurality of spirally wound convolutions of corrugated paper board andfitting Within said outer container, a removable inner container vofpasteboard or like material, adisk on top of said inner container, and alid for said outer container.

In testimony whereof, I, the said ROBERT T. HUNT, have hereunto set myhand.

ROBERT T. HUNT. Witnesses :v

Ro'r. D. TofrrEN. JOHN F. WILL.

